Focus: So why did he commit suicide?

A middle-class boy turned fire-eater has become a prime suspect in the Abigail stabbing after taking his own life. Maurice Chittenden reports

As a youngster Richard Cazaly had a life of privilege and comfort. Born into a well-off middle-class family, he was given a private education at an independent school and his family had homes in Britain and Australia.

But last week Cazaly, dead from a drug overdose at 23, became a leading suspect in the stabbing of Abigail Witchalls, a young mother who was left for dead after being attacked last month.

The pictures released of him — as a shaven-headed cannabis smoker adorned with neck chains, tattoos and body piercings or as a fire-eating juggler — are a far cry from the smart, blue-blazered boy in his school photograph.

If he was responsible for the brutal stabbing, his fall into a life of drugs and drifting compounds the horror of what appears to be a motiveless attack.

Witchalls was pushing her 22-month-old son Joseph home in his buggy last month when she